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1/9 A second #ClinicalFrailtyScale tweetorial (tweetegesis?) prompted by three questions from last time: 1. Why include disability when discussing ways in which people can be frail - weren’t the two disentangled long ago? 2. Isn’t frailty a syndrome? 3. Can it be diagnosed? ->2
2/9 Hereabouts, we see deficit accumulation as primary. It’s what happens with age, and how frailty/risk arises. The risk isn’t just of death. Think, say, an injurious fall. It can occur in a fit person. If so, a single-system cause, and/or a big perturbation is most likely.->3
3/9 For such, the relevant ‘ologist (neurologist, cardiologist, traumatologist) is best. If the person was frail at baseline (or very old) this is where comprehensive geriatric assessment shines in its embrace of the patient’s (likely many) interacting medical & social issues ->4
